How to donate

Note: This table is only applicable for using foreign currency/people living out of China. If you are currently living in China or you can speak Chinese, please use Google or other search engines to locate your local red cross agencies. Junyu from Google also wrote a post on that (in Chinese). You can either donate some money or contribute in other forms.

As I only collect the information from web according to the best of my knowledge, please verify any information you get from the web twice before donation, especially the destination bank account number and swift code.

Update by Aw: You may also want to donate via Google.com.

Quick tips:

If you want to donate via credit card: Go to method 3, 5, 6, 7

If you want to donate via check, go to method 1, 10

If you can do wire transfer quickly, go to method 2, 3, 4

If you want to donate to some NGO that you can trust, go to method 8, 9, 10

If you want to donate via paypal, go to method 8, 9, 10

If you can read Chinese or if you are in HK, go to method 5, 6

If you are in United States and near New York, you can use Method 1.

If you've head of some NGO/Forums like bullog or mitbbs, go to their corresponding web pages. Method 8 and 9 provides the quick link.

Official Agencies:

Method 1

Organization: Chinese Consulate General in New York
Write a Check to Chinese Consulate General in New York.

Pay to the order of: "Chinese Consulate General in New York"

For "Earthquake Relief Donation"

Mail to "Liu Lei,520 12th Ave, New York, NY 10036"

Please leave your name, addr and zip code/tel so that we can connect you with receipts

Phone number: 212-244-9392 ext. 1000.

Website(In Chinese): http://www.nyconsulate.prchina.org/chn/ttxw/t434163.htm

Method 2.

Organization: Chinese Red Cross

Wiring transfer to

Bank Info: CHINA CITI BANK H.O.IN BEIJING, SWIFT:CIBKCNBJ

Account Number: 7112-1114-8260-0000-209

Website http://redcross.org.cn (In Chinese)

Tel 011-86-10-65139999, 64027620

Method 3.

Organization: Chinese Red Cross FOUNDATION

Bank Info: BANK OF CHINA, BEIJING BR., SWIFT:BKCHCNBJ110

Account Number: 8001-0008-6608-0910-14
Website: www.crcf.org.cn

You can also use IE browser to access
http://www.crcf.org.cn/gb/jianjie/jkindex.asp

via your credit card.
You can get the information about your donation at
http://www.crcf.org.cn/gb/jianjie/jkindex.asp

Method 4

Organization: China Charity

Bank Info: BANK OF CHINA,H.O.IN BEIJING, SWIFT:BKCHCNBJ

Account Number 0010-0914-9080-9101-4

Website: http://www.chinacharity.cn/wzdefaultservlet (Chinese)

Method 5

Organization: Red Cross In HK

Online donation Website: www.redcross.org.hk

Method 6

Oxfam HK

Online donation website

https://www.oxfam.org.hk/public/donate/donate?donate_id=45

Other Organizations:

Method 7

MercyCorps China Earth Quake relief.

Donate on line via credit card.
Website: http://www.mercycorps.org/chinaearthquake/?source=1062

Method 8

Bullog, a famous right-wing web forum in China, founded by Yonghao Luo.

Donate via paypal.
Website: http://www.bullog.cn/blogs/liuyanban/archives/136782.aspx (In Chinese)

Method 9

MitBBS via paypal

Website: http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/sysop/31168784.html

Pay to: contactmitbbs@gmail.com
ATTN: Chinese earthquake relief.

For paypal. You don't need a bank account to operate, just use paypal (If you know what it is). Note that MITBBS/Bullog are both popular and high-ranked BBSs among Chinese community, they are doing everything they can do to help the victims in the earthquake, but keep in mind that they are not a non-profit/tax free agency. [If you want a tax-exempt receipt. this might not be a good choice]

Method 10

SVNT, a non-profit organization registered in California with IRS 501 (c)
(3) status. We will publish all transactions of donations online. All
donations will be 100% transferred to China Red Cross.
(Unverified by me, but many Chinese have donated through this)

Via Bank Transfer:

Bank name: Washington Mutual
Payee title: SVTN (special fund for earthquake relief)
Routing #: 322271627
Acct #: 3170415745

Address:
690 RIVER OAKS PKWY
SAN JOSE, CA 95134-1905

Or by check:

Pay to: SVTN
For: China Earthquake Relief

Mail to: P. O. Box 1295
Fremont, CA 94538-0129
USA

Or Paypal: tsinghua_foundation@yahoo.com
Pay to China Earthquake Relief.